Thursday, April 2, 2009

Next adoption milestone

Well, we just received news that we have passed another step in our adoption process. After we accepted Shella May's referral, our paperwork had to go through the Philippine court system to get approved. We were told to expect this to take 4-6 weeks, but ours was quicker! Our paperwork has just returned to our agency and all is good and we are off the the next step. Now our paperwork goes to USCIS (immigration) and gets approved on the U.S. side of the things. We were told this would take around 30 days, give or take a month or two, haha. We will keep you up to date on when we reach that milestone. We are so hoping to travel in June or July.

8 comments:

Rachel said...

That is GREAT news that your legals went quicker than normal!!!! Hooray!

emilie said...

yay! that's good news.

Renee and Brian said...

Congratulations! One step down and hopefully the rest of the steps will go more quickly than anticipated as well!

melissa s. said...

awesome news. we are so excited for you guys (and for us, to meet our new cousin!!)

Michelle said...

How exciting! The months will fly by, and before you know it, she will be here! :-)

Amy said...

Great news!! I bet your thoughts are consumed with Shella May. Thank goodness you have one more step behind you :)

Allison Family said...

Congratulations...one step closer!

Anonymous said...

congradulations!!!!!.......she is soooo cute!! James and I have really been thinking on adoption for a girl as we could not produce one.....but 4 kids would be too much! maybe in a few years.....
We still need to get the new garage done so the two younger ones can have a room.
I am very excited for all of you!!
Amy